Rhan
Whang
of Noriko Handroll Bar
Twelve years at Girl & the Goat, seventy storefronts that went nowhere, one dingy basement full of golf clubs -- that’s the unlikely road Chef Rhan Whang took to Noriko, the 21-seat handroll bar tucked beneath Chicago’s PERILLA Fare.
Rhan joins us to talk about building a restaurant with childhood friends, spending three months eating his way through Korea, and what working alongside Stephanie Izard taught him about precision, consistency, and creative freedom. Along the way, we get into the art of running a kitchen, a particularly gruesome knife mishap, a secret cocktail laboratory in Greece, the importance a few inches can make, and so much more!
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Listen on Podbean ↗Twelve years at Girl & the Goat, seventy storefronts that went nowhere, one dingy basement full of golf clubs -- that’s the unlikely road Chef Rhan Whang took to Noriko, the 21-seat handroll bar tucked beneath Chicago’s PERILLA Fare. Rhan joins us to talk about building a restaurant with childhood friends, spending three months eating his way through Korea, and what working alongside Stephanie Izard taught him about precision, consistency, and creative freedom. Along the way, we get into the art of running a kitchen, a particularly gruesome knife mishap, a secret cocktail laboratory in Greece, the importance a few inches can make, and so much more!
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